Publisher's Description
Tom Burr (born in 1963, in New Haven, Connecticut)
is an American artist whose work—photographs,
drawings, sculptures and installations—revisits the
formal vocabulary of the avant-gardes of the
1960s, in particular Minimalism and post-
Minimalism, and mixes together pop iconography,
homosexual culture, underground aesthetics, musical,
cinematographic and literary influences, as well
as contemporary architecture and design. These
works articulate the problematics linked to architecture
and public space, and questions of sociology,
psychology, and gender politics. The conceptual
investigation led by the artist essentially questions
the way in which identity, especially sexual identity,
is constructed or is, on the contrary, constrained by
society and its physical spaces. The artist uses the
appropriationist strategy of the 1980s, as it permits
past works to be revisited in order to reveal different
significations. Thus the artist reconfigures a
history no longer fixed in time and space, but on
the contrary perfectly open, illuminating and transforming
the present.
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